You probably didn't forget, but just in case...

Today is the first day of daylight saving time. You didn't forget to change your clocks, of course. Or did you?

As usual, not everyone is happy about saving daylight and by advancing their clocks by one hour and it becomes a brief controversy that settles down until the next clock change.*

We, too, pile on with a learned lecture from back in winter quarter 2022 when yours truly made a presentation to his class about time and time changes (and when UCLA still required masks indoors as the video shows):

https://archive.org/details/mitchell-time-edited.

The more the clock changes, the more the debate over clock changing stays the same.

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*https://www.axios.com/2025/03/06/trump-daylight-savings-time-change-march-2025; https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5175941-daylight-saving-time-government-efficiency-doge/; https://news.gallup.com/poll/657584/half-daylight-saving-time-sunsetted.aspx; https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/06/cancel-daylight-saving-time-elon-musk-stirs-debate/81757328007/.